photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A12.14
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 12
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of two Shonshone men seated on chairs, the man on the left is wearing a tunic, leggings, moccasins, a shell neck ornament, and a blanket over his knees, his hair is in two bunches wrapped in a fabric decorated with beads; the man on the right is wearing a cloth shirt, hide leggings, moccasins, and a blanket over his knees; Salt Lake City, United States of America
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1869
- Dimensions
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Height: 18 centimetres (image)
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Height: 35 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 13.10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 27.40 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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Related information: This image was found with a handwritten title page numbered A12/1 which reads:
"Cheyenne & Arapaho Indians
Photographs taken at Leavenworth about 1859 on their way to Washington
John Smith Interpreter was killed.
Negatives purchased at Leavenworth."
It was also found with a contents page numbered A12/2 which reads:
"CHEYENNES.
Colorado Territory.
No.109. LITTLE ROBE.
No.110. WHIRLWIND.
No.111. WHITE SHIELD.
No.112. WHITE HORSE.
No.113. MEDICINE MAN.
No.114. PAWNEE.
No.115. ED. GUERRER, INTERPRETER.
No.116. WHIRLWIND AND PAWNEE.
No.117. LITTLE ROBE AND WHITE HORSE.
No.122. HIGH TOE.
No.123, 124. GROUPS OF CHIEFS AND BRAVES."
These numbers are Jackson Catalogue numbers.
Both documents can be found in PicDoc279.
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Related information: the negative for this image is held by the Smithsonian Institution. A copy of the catalogue card for this image can be found in the picdoc for this image. The card indicates that the Smithsonian negative number is 1704 and the following information:
Blackmore colln:1377
Jackson Cat No. 670
Shindler Cat No. 256
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Related information: The Shindler copy of this image is published in Fleming 2003. Native American Photography at the Smithsonian. p.267. The caption notes that the original photograph was taken by Charles William Carter, Salt Lake City in 1869.
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Related image: Am,A38.58
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Image fading and spotted. Foxing on the mount.
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- The 'Disposal book of the Salisbury South Wilts and Blackmore Museum No. 1 1928-1952' reports the disposal of a: "Photographs of North American Indians and miscellanea" given to the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography of the British Museum. It is dated 24th February 1932.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,A12.14
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 256 (Shindler Catalogue Number)
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Miscellaneous number: A11/1377 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)